2012 really is The Year of Channing Tatum. And I’m fine with that quite honestly. As Gossip Cop already reported last week, Channing is People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2012. This comes in the same week that Channing was named GQ’s Movie Star of the Year as well. And… I’m still fine with it! I’ve liked Channing for years now. He’s a good interview, he’s professional, he’s well-liked by Hollywood, he’s got a great body and his acting is actually improving (for real!). While he’s not Oscar-quality or anything, he has potential and I think he does a great job of selecting his projects and working with people who get the best out of him. Plus, I actually find him attractive. I would hit it. He’s funny and he seems like a genuine sweetheart. My mother is probably People Mag’s target audience… and she flat-out ADORES Channing. So, this was a really good choice.

You know how I just said that Channing is a good interview? Well, his “SMA acceptance speech interview” with People is typical Channing – he talks about all of the stuff that ladies love. He talks about his dogs, his wife, his desire for babies and he even sounds a little redneck-y. Which I not-so-secretly love. I’m surrounded by rednecks, and I tend to love them.

He may have bared (almost) all of that incredibly chiseled body in this year’s Magic Mike but 2012′s Sexiest Man Alive Channing Tatum was still modest when he heard the news.

“My first thought was, ‘Y’all are messing with me,’” says Tatum, who married actress Jenna Dewan-Tatum in 2009. “I told Jenna after we’d been in the bathtub washing our dogs because they’d gotten skunked.”

Says the actor: “She was like, ‘What?’”

“Yeah, she calls me [the Sexiest Man Alive] now,” he adds. And who can blame her?

Her Alabama-bred heartthrob of a husband is also a sculptor who quotes Edgar Allan Poe, loves to give her massages and can’t wait to start their family. “I’m ready; I think she’s ready,” Tatum, 32, says. “The first number that pops into my head is three, but I just want one to be healthy and then we’ll see where we go after that.”

“It’s really easy for us guys to say, ‘I want like 15 kids,’” he continues. “Jenna will be like, ‘Well you better get another wife!’”

Currently training to play an Olympic athlete in next year’s Foxcatcher, Tatum is all heart and muscle at 195 pounds. “I like to be lean. If I get too bulky I can’t move well and I like to move,” he says. “When I’m not training, I get really round and soft.”

Which is just fine by his wife. “People know him to be fun and sexy, but they don’t know how emotionally deep and spiritually open he is,” says Dewan-Tatum, 31. “He is such an open-hearted person; what you see is what you get.”

I do hope that Channing and Jenna get around to having babies soon, mostly because he’s been talking about it for a while and I think he really wants to be a dad. I don’t know how Jenna feels about it, though. We’ll see. I love when he says, “The first number that pops into my head is three, but I just want one to be healthy and then we’ll see where we go after that.” So sweet. And I love the skunked-dogs story. Typical Channing.

UPDATE: I was starring at the People cover trying to figure out why it seemed so familiar to me. It’s a mirror image of an old Vanity Fair cover with Brad Pitt, in a photo taken by the late (great) Herb Ritts. Go here to see. Channing is even wearing the same outfit!

People Magazine cover courtesy of People. Additional photos courtesy of WENN and Fame/Flynet.

ZRemember when Jenna was dating Justin Timberlake and they had the “dance-off” against Britney and her crew at that club? Lol Anyway, I was very resistant to The Channing, but damnit if he hasn’t grown on me like a fungus. Between 21 Jump Street and Magic Mike, he’s just so likeable! (Btw, the final scene in MM is my favorite of the whole movie…)

Hemsworth would have definetely gotten my vote over Channing but I do like the man I just don’t think he’s the (Hollywood)sexiest man alive. Then again they voted Cooper into the league last year.

How does People Mag even choose the sexiest man? Is it a bunch of Hollywood types voting on this? What they should do is compile a list of male celebritites and let us, the public vote on it. Then it would be our choice because whichever celeb gets the most votes win, clean and clear.

Channing does seems like a cool cute guy to hang out with as a friend. You know the kind of guy that your female friends would say; Oh he’s hot why don’t you date him and you say even though he’s attractive, there’s no sexual chemistry between the two of you.

This should have been the year of Liam Neeson. He had like three or four movies come out this year that all did well at the box office and, thus, we saw a lot of him at red carpets, interviews, etc. Taken 2 worldwide has already earned like
340 million dollars at the box office in a few months. He has never looked better. He seems to be in a better place griefwise. He’s put back on a little weight.

I just don’t find him sexy…at all. I dont know why, he’s cute, has a great body, is likable…but he does nothing for my lady parts. I find men sexy that have some kind of an edge and CT doesn’t have one IMO.

Love him and great choice but I hate the cover. IMO he needs to be in no shirt at all or a dress shirt and tie. The wife beater is really not doing it for me. I guess I’ll have to buy the magazine and look inside for better pics

LMAO, I was just scrolling down to type pretty much this exact statement. Blake Shelton is not sexy in even the slightest way. Eww. He smiles and he looks like a ferret. Eww. Just no, big no. Guess he got in the running from the Miranda and he cover from the other week.

So he’s 6’1″ and 195? That’s good to know. My bf and I have been slimming down slowly (on purpose) for about a year now and he’s trying to plan out what his maintenance weight will be. I’ll bet this frame is what he wants, not too bulky, not too wiry and they’re the same height. He’s like 211 now but since we’re eating little calories he has only been maintaining muscle mass…so he’ll have to go down lower to lose the fat and then regain the muscle, which he’s planning on anyway.

Put his head on Channing’s body…yess I’ll take it. I need a future-body avatar for myself now. Who’s 5’5″ and nicely ripped for a girl?

Y’all, I’m going to get sentimental for a minute. My mom was the one that fell in love with Channing first. I remember her calling me at college to tell me about that “handsome boy” in She’s The Man and how I needed to watch. She loved watching movies more than anything. The last movie we watched together was the Eagle- a Channing tatum movie. She passed away last year. This People story is totally a monent she and I would have loved.

Sorry for your loss. I know what it’s like to share something with your mum and then have her gone. My mum loved Michael Jackson and was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer the day he died. The last movie we saw together was “This is It”. Whenever I hear MJ now I think of her.

Y’all, I’m going to get sentimental for a minute. My mom was the one that fell in love with Channing first. I remember her calling me at college to tell me about that “handsome boy” in She’s The Man and how I needed to watch. She loved watching movies more than anything. The last movie we watched together was the Eagle- a Channing tatum movie. She passed away last year. This People story is totally a moment she and I would have loved.

I like him because he is not perfect looking (a.k.a. a pretty boy). He is manly looking. I became a fan after 21 Jump Street any man that can make me laugh is good! Plus, it seems like other people really like him (Magic Mike co-stars) which is also telling. Sounds like he has a nice wife too.

You speak the truth!! Channing is a crappy actor with a good body and a fug face. If People didn’t want a European actor for the title they could have at least given it to Ryan Gosling. He’s all kinds of frickin’ hot.

I’m glad it didn’t go to Yellow Teeth Fassbender but ITA about Channing Tatum. Yeah he has a nice body but so does every other leading and wanna be leading man in Hollywood. I think Channing is a total butterface but I think he is hotter than Matt Damon or Richard Gere.

I like Channing as an actor but as far as clinching the title of ‘Sexiest Man Alive’,give me a break.I tend not to ever agree with People and their choices but I see that this year is an exception given that Matt Bomer made the list.Personally,I DO think he is way more deserving of that title and should have been on the cover instead.It simply goes without saying,perfection at its finest.

There is nothing remotely interesting about this man. I’m glad he’s a nice guy and professional and all but you’d need tools capable of measuring at the molecular level to find any charisma in his general vicinity.

It’s a combination of their choices for both lists-which are increasingly boring-and the actual physical magazine, which just doesn’t seem to be as put together or interesting as it used to be.
Even if I didn’t like their choice for the top, I always enjoyed thumbing through the issue. Now, I haven’t bought one in years, it’s just not an ‘event’ issue the way it used to be.

He’s so incredibly boring and I’ve not seen a movie where his acting was inspiring in the least. I’m not upset cause I hate People magazine but GQ … movie star of the year? I can think of so many better choices …

People magazine can’t find any sexy non-white men to put on its cover. What about Barack Obama, Michael Ealy, Idris Elba, Giles Marini. ALL of these men are SEXY. Get with the times; stop being so racist.